linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] PCI: brcmstb: disable L0s component of ASPM by default

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Message-ID: <CA+-6iNzwxL0T130Bww-TkoVWhn_2--a1URu4JktGb6aD6qGjbA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:17:10 -0400
From:   Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "maintainer:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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        <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] PCI: brcmstb: disable L0s component of ASPM by default

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 02:55:22PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > From: Jim Quinlan <jquinlan@...adcom.com>
> >
> > Some informal internal experiments has shown that the BrcmSTB ASPM L0s
> > savings may introduce an undesirable noise signal on some customers'
> > boards.  In addition, L0s was found lacking in realized power savings,
> > especially relative to the L1 ASPM component.  This is BrcmSTB's
> > experience and may not hold for others.  At any rate, we disable L0s
> > savings by default unless the DT node has the 'brcm,aspm-en-l0s'
> > property.
>
> I assume this works by writing the PCIe Link Capabilities register,
> which is read-only via the config space path used by the generic ASPM
> code, so that code thinks the device doesn't support L0s at all.
Correct.
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie-host.txt includes
> an "aspm-no-l0s" property.  It'd be nice if this could use the same
> property.
I'd like to use the existing "aspm-no-l0s" but we'd really like to
have it disabled by default.  I'll probably switch but let me dwell on
it a little.
Thanks, Jim
>
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jquinlan@...adcom.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> > index 2bc913c0262c..bc1d514b19e4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> > @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
> >  #define PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_ID_VAL3                    0x043c
> >  #define  PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_ID_VAL3_CLASS_CODE_MASK   0xffffff
> >
> > +#define PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_LINK_CAPABILITY                    0x04dc
> > +#define  PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_LINK_CAPABILITY_ASPM_SUPPORT_MASK 0xc00
> > +
> >  #define PCIE_RC_DL_MDIO_ADDR                         0x1100
> >  #define PCIE_RC_DL_MDIO_WR_DATA                              0x1104
> >  #define PCIE_RC_DL_MDIO_RD_DATA                              0x1108
> > @@ -696,7 +699,7 @@ static int brcm_pcie_setup(struct brcm_pcie *pcie)
> >       int num_out_wins = 0;
> >       u16 nlw, cls, lnksta;
> >       int i, ret;
> > -     u32 tmp;
> > +     u32 tmp, aspm_support;
> >
> >       /* Reset the bridge */
> >       brcm_pcie_bridge_sw_init_set(pcie, 1);
> > @@ -806,6 +809,15 @@ static int brcm_pcie_setup(struct brcm_pcie *pcie)
> >               num_out_wins++;
> >       }
> >
> > +     /* Only support ASPM L1 unless L0s is explicitly desired */
> > +     aspm_support = PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1;
> > +     if (of_property_read_bool(pcie->np, "brcm,aspm-en-l0s"))
> > +             aspm_support |= PCIE_LINK_STATE_L0S;
> > +     tmp = readl(base + PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_LINK_CAPABILITY);
> > +     u32p_replace_bits(&tmp, aspm_support,
> > +             PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_LINK_CAPABILITY_ASPM_SUPPORT_MASK);
> > +     writel(tmp, base + PCIE_RC_CFG_PRIV1_LINK_CAPABILITY);
> > +
> >       /*
> >        * For config space accesses on the RC, show the right class for
> >        * a PCIe-PCIe bridge (the default setting is to be EP mode).
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >